DUSHANBE , March 7, Asia-Plus - The Fifth two-day International Congress of Teachers of the Persian Language and Literate will open in Dushanbe on March 9.  

According to information from the Iranian Cultural Center in Dushanbe , international conference on the Persian language and literature will be held on sidelines of the congress.  

Some 40 teachers and researchers of the Persian language and literature from Afghanistan , China , India , Iran , Lebanon , Pakistan , Tajikistan , the United States and Uzbekistan    will gather in Dushanbe to attend the conference.  They will read papers at the conference on linguistics and the Persian literature.  

The source in the Iranian Cultural Center has told Asia-Plus that the conference is staged by the International Congress of Teachers and Researchers of Persian Language and Literature under Iran ’s Council for Dissemination of Persian Language in cooperation with the Government of Tajikistan.